Improvement in button-holes for paper collars



UNTTEEl STATES PATENT OFFICE 9 B. F. PORTER, OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,599, dated February 13, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knoWn that I, BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of Nashua, n the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improved Buttox1-Hole for PapernCollars or Wristbands; and I do hereby declare the saine to be fully described in the following specifi' cation and represented in the accompanying drawing, which exhibits a pair ot' such buttonholes as made in a Wristband.

The button-hole in question consists of an elongated slot, a larger semiciroular or other proper shaped opening, from Which the slot proceeds, and a fly or lip to enter and close such opening.

In the drawing, a is the elongated slot, which leads from a semicircular opening, o, formed in the Wristband by a corresponding lip or fly. b, partially out from the' material, the ont being made along the aro, but not along the chord of the segment b.

I do not confine my invention to makingy the opening c and its flap in a semioiroular or segmental shape, as they may be otherwise formed to operate to good advantage.

By laying on the flap the Hat disk or foot of the shank ot a sleeve-button and pressing the ap doWn a little the disk may be passed through the Wristband, so asV to bring the shank into the slot a. After the button may have been inserted in the button-hole, the lip or fly, on being moved back to plaee, will operate to retain the button in the hole.

I claim- The improved button-hole as made With the openings a and o, and the lip or ily b, arranged substantially as specified.

B. F. PORTER.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, WM. FOSTER HENRY. 

